Debian bug report logs - #1355
mformat does not work

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Subject: Re: Bug#1355: mformat does not work
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> I'll leave this bug report open because the error message could
> certainly be better.

I remember an announcement a couple of weeks ago of a new, totally
rewritten, version of mtools. Maybe this has been fixed in that version?

Ray
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From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: Bug#1355: mformat does not work

Andi Kleen <andi@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de> said:

> mformat does not work.
> 
> How to repeat:
> 
> # mdir A:
> [ correct directory listing ]
> # mformat A:
> Non-removable media is not supported
> #
> 
> I had expected it to format the disk in the A: drive.

I'll leave this bug report open because the error message could
certainly be better.

Mtools can try multiple disk geometries to read a disk, but needs
to know which one you really want to use in order to write on a disk.

You can provide this info to mformat manually:
  SYNOPSIS
       mformat [ -t tracks ] [ -h heads ]  [  -s  sectors  ]  [  -l
       volume label ] drive:
or you can provide information specific to your hardware configuration
by editing /etc/mtools.ref.  There are examples in that file.

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Subject: mformat does not work
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 23:37:54 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de>


Package: mtools
Version: 2.0.7 12

mformat does not work.

How to repeat: 

# mdir A:
[ correct directory listing ]
# mformat A:
Non-removable media is not supported
# 

I had expected it to format the disk in the A: drive.

I am using Debian 0.93A, kernel version 1.3.25 and libc 4.6.27. 

-Andi